I'm quite happy Things have been going really great! * My moms chemo therapy is working. It's not a cure by any means, but it will buy her more lifetime. There's a very small chance that she might eventually get healthy enough to fly back to America. * One of the VR projects I worked on in Nov 2018 was recently nominated for an Emmy award. I'm sure the competition will be stiff, so I'm not really expecting it to win. I worked on the "putting it together" part, where I did the programming and tech platforms. A small, but important part of the production. To even have an app I worked on get nominated is quite a confidence booster though. * My day job at facebook reality labs has been going fantastic. I really enjoy the work I do and the work culture and atmosphere is fantastic. My team is great, there are no insane schedules and no mandatory overtime. We have a cafeteria which makes 3 meals a day, loads of delicious food and snacks, and the vending machines give you any computer hardware you need (mice, keyboards, cables, etc). IT helpdesk is super helpful too. This place is probably going to be the standard I use to measure working for other companies. I can't talk about what I work on though. Maybe that'll come out years down the road when & if its all public. That's one thing I miss about doing indie work: I could talk about anything I wanted to any degree of detail. * Weather has been nice, can't complain. My car works again. My commute is a glorious 4 miles away (10 minute drive). Unfortunately, I've been slacking a bit on my other side projects due to lack of time and energy. That's what day jobs do to ya https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Things have been going really great! * My moms chemo therapy is working. It's not a cure by any means, but it will buy her more lifetime. There's a very small chance that she might eventually get healthy enough to fly back to America. * One of the VR projects I worked on in Nov 2018 was recently nominated for an Emmy award. I'm sure the competition will be stiff, so I'm not really expecting it to win. I worked on the "putting it together" part, where I did the programming and tech platforms. A small, but important part of the production. To even have an app I worked on get nominated is quite a confidence booster though. * My day job at facebook reality labs has been going fantastic. I really enjoy the work I do and the work culture and atmosphere is fantastic. My team is great, there are no insane schedules and no mandatory overtime. We have a cafeteria which makes 3 meals a day, loads of delicious food and snacks, and the vending machines give you any computer hardware you need (mice, keyboards, cables, etc). IT helpdesk is super helpful too. This place is probably going to be the standard I use to measure working for other companies. I can't talk about what I work on though. Maybe that'll come out years down the road when & if its all public. That's one thing I miss about doing indie work: I could talk about anything I wanted to any degree of detail. * Weather has been nice, can't complain. My car works again. My commute is a glorious 4 miles away (10 minute drive). Unfortunately, I've been slacking a bit on my other side projects due to lack of time and energy. That's what day jobs do to ya

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